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Senior Leaders Who Hire for Gaps Not Mirrors
Episode 47 of Executive Careers with Fexingo explores the counterintuitive hiring philosophy that senior leaders are using to build stronger executive teams: hiring for gaps in their own skill set rather than for cultural fit or comfort. Lucas and Luna unpack a 2025 study from the Center for Creative Leadership showing that leadership teams with complementary skill diversity outperform homogeneous teams by 28 percent on innovation metrics. They walk through a concrete case from a Fortune 500 CFO who deliberately hired a second-in-command with opposite strengths, and discuss why the…
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